Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 133
But in her dream he had rent the film that obscures the Neverland, and she saw Wendy and John and Michael peeping through the gap.
Who acts: dog, film, adventure, Wendy · What happens: rend, obscure, see, peep, dream · To what, where: film, dream, Neverland, Wendy
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, film, adventure, Wendy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 rent | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dream | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dream | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rent | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rent | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rent | aux |
| 7 | rent | rend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 film | det |
| 9 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rent | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 obscures | nsubj |
| 11 | obscures | obscure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 film | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Neverland | det |
| 13 | Neverland | Neverland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 obscures | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rent | conj |
| 18 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 John | cc |
| 20 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Wendy | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Michael | cc |
| 22 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Wendy | conj |
| 23 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 saw | xcomp |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 gap | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gap | det |
| 26 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 peeping | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rend | past · perfect | dog | the film | adventure's dream | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Patient | |||
| 2 | obscure | present | the film | the Neverland | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neverland=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | past | adventure | Wendy and John and Michael | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | peep | gerund | Wendy and John and Michael not said here | through the gap | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through gap=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dream | adventure | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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